welcome to the big picture. as radical islamists claim a new victory in syria the country's chemical weapons could fall into the hands of . frame the by the west which is trying to create a perceived threat as a pretext for intervention. coming out. model austerity forces u.k. taxpayers to tighten their belt looks at how big corporations are using legal loopholes to avoid paying attention. insecurities stepped up in egypt in capital braces for clashes between supporters of the country's new constitution.

news and current twenty four hours a day this is r.t. . in syria radical islamists have reportedly captured a key military base in the country's north they claimed advances fears the country's chemical weapons stockpiles could potentially fall into militant hands middle east correspondent the latest. now this comes as the damascus regime increasingly accuses both the e.u. and the united states of conducting a smear campaign against it in terms of falsely accusing damascus of using chemical weapons the syrian foreign ministry has written a number of letters to the united nations in which it says that it is afraid that countries backing both terrorists and terrorism might them solves provide those countries with chemical weapons and then shift the blame and point fingers towards syria there is of course growing concern that the chemical weapons stockpiles

within syria could land up in the hands of extreme militants in here we've been hearing reports of both al qaida as well as hizbullah in the south operating and lending their support to the insurgency and so there's concern that these weapons could land up specifically in their hands the united states for its side says it has intelligence that the syrian army may be preparing to use chemical weaponry and again the u.s. has pushed the line that this would be a red line if indeed it was proven and that this would bring in the shift reaction and the immediate involvement of the united states we are hearing from a u.s. official as well as senior administration officials that the u.s. and the european union are training rebels both within jordan and turkey in terms of trying to secure these stockpiles of chemical weapons within syria now it is important to make note that none of these reports in terms of chemical weapons can

be verified what we do know is that so there has one of the world's largest chemical weapon arsenals so it has never joined the chemical weapons convention and as such it is never given any kind of information in terms of the extended to and the declaration of its chemical weapons and this is why at this stage exactly what is the extent of the chemical weapons and. they said he is an information war out there and we are witnessing an increasing number of videos be. posted on you tube you have a situation where both sides the damascus regime as well as the rebels are accusing the other of blood chilling atrocities as well as war crimes and let me just warn our viewers that the videos you're about to see are disturbing there is a video that is circulating on new truth that shows that assad troops are using chemical weapons and when you look at this video you see disturbing. both adults but also children with disfigured face faces as well as limbs and incredible whose

to their bodies there is of course also videos of rebels reportedly using chemical weapons on bunny's as almost a great against the assad regime that this is just what they are planning on doing the rebels have also been posting videos of innocent victims of aerial bombings as well as share means while at the same time pro assad activists have been posting on you tube videos of rebels making a child behaves a number of prisoners now according to the information this reportedly did happen in homes what we do so you know the video is a number of the hated victims we see the child actually beheading this person but again no way of indicating all verify exactly the truth of this although some sources say that they were people with saudi accidents being heard inside this video all of this is extremely disturbing footage again no way of verifying its authenticity but it certainly does show that tensions on the ground are increasing and increasing and alarming rate. was u.s.

sources say washington is training rebels to secure one hundred chemical weapons in case the syrian regime collapses some observers are now convinced that a former intervention is in the making. this period right now and the talk of weapons of mass destruction chemical weapons in syria is very reminiscent of the run up to the anglo-american attack on iraq in two thousand and three one of those videos purported to show syrian insurgents funded by the west preparing chemical weapons which we use on rabbits but could be used on syrian civilians and then blamed on the syrian government the assad government is not suicidal it has been playing its cards very carefully there is no basis in fact for the use of chemical weapons by the syrian government that would be counterproductive the weapons of mass destruction argument used so effectively in two thousand and three and later found out to be

a complete hoax they've just they've tried it out of the dustbin and their plan to rerun it again. to the u.k. now and the only people that try to survive in austerity wrecked britain it seems some corporate giants will stop at nothing to get out of paying their share with tax avoidance cost the that stricken country tens of billions of pounds a year a figure that's no longer being towed away to a third or fourth reports. people from all over the tend not to come to this conference with this pompous ass like starbucks and apple google at the moment it's really part of a much larger picture welcome to the world of tax avoidance illegal but morally suspect way companies and the wealthy have been dodging paying their fair share most people argue to discuss these companies do not a very taxation which is a criminal offense but are void taxation basically use existing facilities and

legal loopholes in the different regulation and taxation between different countries to their advantage companies like. the head office is based in luxemburg which they claim is the center of the economic operations which is handy as luxembourg so well known in tax haven where companies can enjoy a lower tax rate but hang on a minute here one of amundsen's must've disturb the sense that it is based in the u.k. in fact the reality is that many of our customers to their employees and many will distribute incentives like this while i respect base here in the united kingdom so it's not hard to see that the relatively small luxembourg office is nothing in fact is they say at the heart of their operations and yet the u.k. tax system doesn't seem to recognise it as ordinary british taxpayers who are

losing out that's entirely on the face of it to run because you could register your transaction in different country and the place of great distraction is the place of taxation where as you can have your activities actually taking place here is legal. surely then in the midst of a flat lining economy ek government would be eager to plug the holes billions of much needed tax plans you can't. put in the chancellor's autumn statement last week and it was the panelists on welfare he were in the government's firing line why has this government decided to clamp down on bennett before clamping down on multi-million pound tax avoiders. well i think that the government is clamping down on that there's been a lot of money allocated by him but there are now that people know that.

or doing. it now that people know that they've been avoiding paying that amount of tax i mean it's no good doing it are not pay and there's a difference between people. who voiding tax to legitimately and those who are illegally doing it there is a to do when we were. still avoiding paying where interested me again. let me actually answer the question once before you actually a legally tax avoid is ok to legally tell you what starbucks and amazon and google have been doing is ok's that you're saying there's a difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion tax evasion is illegal tax avoidance people are using the law to their benefit now if the law is wrong we need to change the law but for now the law continues to allow an exodus of profits made in britain meaning companies like amazon can keep getting away with paying less

than the tax payers they're profiting from sarah firth r.t. london. the european union's three presidents have received this year's nobel peace prize on behalf of member states that has been given their war day in recognition of fostering peace but even before the prize was handed out the decision sparked indignation throughout europe time for previous winners wrote an open letter to the nobel foundation commanders of the long grass stripped of the award show head of sunday ceremony hundreds of. protesters on laughlin from the institute of democracy in cooperation leaves peace where things that should be rewarded for. there has not been peace in europe for the last sixty years as the president of the european council said everybody knows that there was a war against yugoslavia and nine hundred ninety nine in which european states e.u.

member states participated very fully they attacked you. so one cannot say that there has been peace of europe since then in any case if we look further afield with syria the european union's policy the actual policy of the european union as an organization never mind its member states has been in my view to fan the flames of the conflict in syria and not to act as a peace broker so there is literally no way in which we can say that the european union has fostered peace. also ahead here this hour security tightness in egypt has more protests new supporters and opponents of president mohamed morsi set to confront each other again as the nation that is itself in this weekend's referendum on a draft constitution plus. he says well he won't have no. way to may want a new main he said you were never heard. from having a baby the victims of a u.s.

citizen program any charges that they're still trying to recognize that story and. under guard these men and women are walking one of the longest and probably the loneliest road in the world they reenacting the march into exile made by thousands of czarist russia. if i was here three hundred years ago i may have disappeared my local lord i may have deserted from the army or a variety of other crimes the result was the same like my fellow prisoners around me i've got a long and very cold walk ahead into exile in siberia it took them years to get there summers winters entire years a lot of people died on the way this group in the western siberia region of omsk

discovered they're living on the only surviving stretch of the original nine thousand kilometers of the siberian exiles track the new modern changes made to it is going to discover that he's descended from some of these exiles and decided to build a museum telling a story he and his re-enact is now receiving from all over the world to show them what it was like when these stories were going to stop it's scary to put the shackles on of course but it's interesting. remember our history we will have no future we want is a monument to one of the risk russia's coolest chop to. the city served as the capital of anticommunist white russian leader admiral culture shock in the civil war from one thousand nine hundred to nine hundred nineteen lost in residence he lives here there's a study of the mound like the maintenance of this building has remained a taboo right up until the present day or we still receive hate mail saying that he hanged a lot of people and was famous for severe punishment it's all true but it was at

a time of civil war both sides were monstrously cruel it is sadly the theme of cruelty which links so much of employees history to the rest of russia's particularly of exile where they were an apple or a criminal. well into the. science technology innovation all the latest developments around russia we've got the future covered.

welcome back denied the chance of a baby in a decades long program of forced sterilization in america left tens of thousands of women on able to have children once promoted as a way of building a healthy nation it's only recently that the traumatized victims of a eugenics program are being considered for compensation parties reported i went to meet one of those whose lives were blighted by compulsory birth control you won't want to see eighty four year old virginia brooks was just fourteen years old when

north carolina's widespread eugenics program would forever alter her future i said why don't i have to go to the hospital i'm not saying rocks was with two other girls when a social worker picked her up she said we're gonna take you pin. down there and they did surgery i didn't know what to do was doing too many eugenics is a pseudo science aimed at improving the so-called quality of the population by forcibly preventing reproduction by people thought by some to be inferior in america it targeted mostly young poor minorities the mentally disabled or those otherwise deemed unfit to raise children like brooks who was an orphaned teenager she came in my chart was on the phone and. she says well you know what you know why don't you won't have no bread they. said what

a way to make it one day you mean she said you won't never know. and that's when i want to head to me this is. the grand brooks went on to adopt a little girl and mary howard her husband of forty two years between them they have four grandchildren five great grandchildren and the unfortunate legacy of suffering under the shadow of mandatory sterilization. or were no way she would marry some modern should be. a day that anything. they should base. probably one of the most infamous uses of this theory was the radical purity programs in nazi germany. while north carolina's eugenics program reportedly claimed seven thousand six hundred victims before being dissolved in one thousand nine hundred seventy seven north carolina was one of thirty two american states

that practiced eugenics and this year it was on track to be the first state to compensate living victims like brooks with a payout of up to fifty thousand dollars they were kind of us except that they were born this kind of janice day. can do better than this. shame. to this day not one victim throughout the united states has been compensated for their lifelong suffering in june north carolina's state senate rejected proposals to allocate funding for the compensation program some argue that paying victims for what was a legal program could lead to subsequent payouts tied to america's other historic atrocities such as slavery seven decades ago this building served as baker senatorial its worst state officials took virginia brooks and dozens of other young

girls to undergo mandatory sterilization surgery today it serves as an apartment complex where families are living routine lives this as others still bear deep scars over how their lives were forever changed here they had a baby killer of the people. a life changing question which u.s. state officials refused to answer for her in a port archie north carolina. roxy dot com right now we reveal the suspect behind the recent north into a good sabotage the ones you care. for us after granting asylum to. ecuador continues its open door policy. next on the country welcome this. nine

people have been wounded after unknown attackers fired at protesters camped out in cairo essential to where square it comes as egypt gears up for more demonstrations by opponents and supporters of president morsi rest was a secret himself extensive plans to put a new constitution to vote later backtracked on some of the left the referendum intact gyptian leader has now given the military tempi past arrest civilians in the run up to it raising opposition is that he is the first to take a shit well earlier my colleague kevin erin talked to journalist. thinks mercy's draft constitution puts the nation on the brink of civil war. he insisted on the. situation after that actually has been discussed. by the people of egypt. after actually the country in

a. civil war will probably be trashed and it's experience to speak for the first time ever in the history of egypt but the country is your. point we don't even know what will be in them because many judges are still refusing to supervise it which will make it illegal if it happens full judiciary supervision what's your view on the opposition and their stance that blaming the government for dividing the country but why can't they make some concessions and agree to dialogue instead of pushing for more protests is there is no point. if he's insisting on. this. to be a threat to the unity of the people. or egypt look. to the people of egypt feel that i didn't i didn't. we always have

we still have weak political parties we have a strong civil society and this is the. people of egypt after. we begin to treat now. we. can see the police are. peaceful. you are more prepared to meet. someone who want to be you. know we have. to have our freedom we are not going to leave you. with some other news from around the world now by the prominent bahraini human rights campaigner has had his prison sentence reduced. has had his prison term cut from three years to two by an appeals court decision could still prompt more protests from other activists who are calling for his release at apples from behind bars for inciting anti-government

protests and his attorney now saying the court dropped the charge of insulting plates or any authority is have been cracking down on profound demonstrators for almost two years now up to eighty people have been killed on both sides and thousands arrested in protests calling for more freedoms and social improvements from that. the prime minister of mali has resigned in a state t.v. broadcast as hours after his arrest late on monday take the r i was detained by members of a citizen's group supported by the country's military he was promoting a un backed resolution for international military intervention to help regain control of mines know. their soldiers to control very much. and police in belfast northern ireland are treating a petrol bomb attack on an officer as attempted murder a group of fifteen suspected loyalists targeted. the unmarked police vehicle

smashing windows and torching the as it was parked outside the offices of an alliance party m.p. becomes after local council ltd the flying of the union jack flag at belfast city hall two designated days causing protests and sporadic violence across belfast police had to use water to try to disperse the rioting crowds. to attacks by suspected is that mr rebels have claimed the lives of six people in tollens volatile south four were shot dead and four more injured in a drive by shooting at a tea shop in a separate attack a gunman killed a principal and the teacher at a school where violence by islamist insurgents has claimed more than five thousand lives in southern todd and since two thousand and four. well bring you more knees in about half an hour's time but next it saudi martin and breaking the set.

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you live on one hundred thirty three bucks a month for food i should try it because you know how fabulous bad luck. i mean hands down i believe that i'm sitting at the seams really really messed up. in the old story so personally apologize if the. worst you are going through the white house of a. radio guy and pull a veil minestrone cause they don't want what we're about to give you've never seen anything like this i'm told. everyone i'm having martin this break in this that got a great show for you today i'll be talking to kerry mosse they feel you about protests related to a bill that could turn michigan into a right to work state and also be talking author georgetown university professor a doll as gander about egypt unfinished revolution with only

a few weeks left in two thousand and twelve all examine u.s. defense spending and look at some top secret programs under the pentagon's notorious black budget so without further ado let's break that. all right guys let's talk some more about america's longest war afghanistan now there's been a lot of news recently about the failing war and ongoing occupation aside from the recent reports of the u.s. hosting tens of thousands of special operations troops on blackwater bases in the country after the two thousand and fourteen deadline it just came out that u.s. troops in afghanistan routinely target children on the battlefield yes you heard me right children according to one senior army officer children with potential hostile intent are not considered threats because the tell.